Battle of Winceby

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Battle of Winceby
Part of the First English Civil War
Parliamentary cavalry at a re-enactment of the Battle of Winceby
Date 11 October 1643 Location Winceby, Lincolnshire Result Parliamentarian victory
Belligerents
Royalists	Parliamentarians
Commanders and leaders
Sir William Widdrington Sir John Henderson Sir William Savile	Earl of Manchester Oliver Cromwell
Strength
c. 2,500–3,000 horse[1]	c. 3,000 horse c. 2,000 foot
Casualties and losses
200–300[2] 800 taken prisoner	c. 20 killed[3]

Winceby

Hull

King's Lynn

Barton

Lincoln

Bolingbroke Castle

Horncastle

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Lincolnshire and Winceby

The Battle of Winceby took place on 11 October 1643 during the First English Civil War near the village of Winceby, Lincolnshire. In the battle, a Royalist relieving force under the command of Sir William Widdrington was defeated by the Parliamentarian cavalry of the Earl of Manchester.^[4]